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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  , living off campus is a good option. Here is my list of pros and cons: The ... Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read about it. If you're an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  streetcorner, adding a bunch of songs to an iPod playlist called "On the Go 5 ... " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... hypnophobia—fear of sleep. In particularly bad bouts, I'd freak myself out about

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up ... Globe's list of the top 50 "ideas, inventions and innovators that helped ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  barraged everyone on my Facebook friend list with a deluge of daily updates ... note="I was coming out of the MIT List Center, only to be greeted by ... . For many of you reading this, perhaps resting after submitting your

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  our wedding in an ad in The Tech. The museum was always one of our ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  list of their stats - GPA, class rank, SAT scores, AP scores, maybe ... list of their stats, and demand to know how they could possibly have been ... official list of these, but I would say that some of them are: (Responsible

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while since we’ve talked. Our group chat of nerd friends eventually fell quiet ... walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  adMITtance (aka the MIT Class of 2023 Facebook group), I stopped ... exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  acronym. at the beginning of every academic year, the mit list visual arts ... really beautiful photographs by doc edgerton. i made a list of pieces i ... last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  many "failures" served as catalysts for personal growth. In the wake of ... MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  us expand the list of places to be sad, so fill out this survey and let ... You trudge out of Walker after your third midterm this week ... working on any of them, and it’s already around 9:45 PM. If you’re like me

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... kitch, lots of skits and picture drawing for my taste, I have learned an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on the sidequests I planned at the beginning of the year. Sidequest 1 ... , though, I generally know the number of the building that I happen to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  Intercollegiate Athletics site has a long list of achievements. Meghan is a ... MIT's site also lists plenty of achievements, including leading her high school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  : http://www.wi-phi.com/contributor/agustín-rayo. P.P.S: Season 3 of MIT's own Science Out Loud YouTube series is now ... regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... what kinds of problems I want to work on. Recently, my PI asked me what

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  as a part of his application to MIT, and had a YouTube channel ... all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... Man comics A lot of people at MIT were of course ecstatic, and in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017